Background

Ms. Karen K. Narasaki is the President and Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium. NAPALC is a non-profit, non-partisan civil rights organization whose mission is to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans through advocacy, public policy, public education, and litigation. NAPALC is affiliated with the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles and the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco. Before joining NAPALC, ... Ms. Narasaki was the Washington, D.C. Representative for the Japanese American Citizens League. Prior to that she was a corporate attorney at Perkins Coie in Seattle, Washington. Before joining Perkins Coie, she served as a Law Clerk to Judge Harry Pregerson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Los Angeles. She currently serves on the Board of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Leadership Conference Education Fund and the Independent Sector. Ms. Narasaki also serves on the Executive Committee of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights as the Chairperson of its Compliance/Enforcement Committee, is the Chairperson of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, and she is the Chairperson of the Asian Pacific American Media Coalition. She is a graduate, magna cum laude, of Yale University and Order of the Coif, of the UCLA School of Law. Ms. Narasaki is a nationally recognized expert on immigrant rights, voting rights, affirmative action, and civil rights. She has appeared on ABC and CBS News, Fox News Channel, the Jim Lehrer Newshour, Hardball with Chris Mathews, America with Dennis Wholey and several National Public Radio shows, including Talk of the Nation and Powerpoint. She has also been quoted by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, as well as numerous regional newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and the Los Angeles Times.

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